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Method

Put a third of the grated carrot in a food processor with the chickpeas, onion, 2 tbsp tahini, cumin and egg. Whizz to a thick paste, then scrape into a large bowl. Heat 1 tbsp oil in your largest frying pan, tip in the remaining carrot and cook for 8-10 mins, stirring until the carrot is softened – it will become more golden as it is cooked. Add this cooked carrot to the whizzed paste with the breadcrumbs, lemon zest and sesame seeds. Add seasoning, then mix together well with your hands.

Divide the mixture into 6, then using wet hands shape into burgers. Cover and chill until serving. Mix the yogurt with the remaining tahini and lemon juice, then chill.

Fire up the barbecue, or heat a non-stick frying pan and brush the burgers with the remaining oil. Cook the burgers for 5 mins on each side, until golden and crisp. Meanwhile warm or toast the buns (or sit them on the barbecue alongside the burgers). When the burgers are ready, spread each bun with some of the lemony sesame yogurt, add the avocado, top with the burger, onion and rocket. Finish with a drizzle of chilli sauce.

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Comments

Delicious! Made half quantity today, oven baked one for dinner & froze the rest. They are indeed like big, carroty falafels. (much nicer than the half a steak burger I had with it). Worth the effort of making them - well the cleaning of the food processor.

Have made these with various variations and tried cooking on the bbq, that option failed as they fall apart; tried frying from frozen and that worked but outside was lovely and crispy but inside was still cold. The best solution so far is to fry from frozen and then place on a medium BBQ to finish them off, well worth the effort and even popular with die hard meat eaters.

These are the best veggie burgers I've ever made. It's worth investing in the Tahini to give them a lovely flavour and I used oats to bind it together. They kept their shape really well and are very tasty. Will definitely be making them again.

Made them twice-always a success! I tend to add a tablespoon of flour in the end before rolling the mixture into burgers though-makes for a more steady mixture. They cook much much better from frozen, i.e. make at least a day ahead and freeze them. Oven baked are probably best-they tend to break a bit in the pan. Didn't try BBQ. Mixture makes 8 good sized burgers.

These were very tasty - loads of flavour. Mine didn't fall apart but then I refigerated them and cooked them in a pan. I didn't bother with the yoghurt and avocado - served them with chilli chutney and mayonnaise instead. My issue was the texture - it was more like a falafel than a burger as it had no bite. Made loads more than six - I have rolled the rest into balls for my son to eat.

In all honesty thought this was disgusting. If no starts was an option would have given that. Included an extra egg as per the reviews, but mixture was horribly dry and bland even though i used top quality carrots.

These taste great, but I found it really tough to get them to hold together when frying in a pan on medium/med-hi heat. I tried others' recommendations and used the white of an extra egg and/or less breadcrumbs - but they were still quite fragile. Any other suggestions re: ingredient changes or handling advice from the peanut gallery?

Regardless, I chilled them after cooking and included them in my toddlers lunchbox with various dips: ketjap manis, hoisin, ketchup and creme fraiche.

My sister in law been veggie for years and was ecstatic about these.
However I find them also very wet and in future would add more egg and maybe more flour too. I did make them rather large and certainly would make them again but smaller and maybe not so thick.
I made the Tahini paste for the first time and it stores well in the fridge and lovely spread on the toasted buns - gives out a lovely (nutty) taste. Will certainly be doing again, suggest you make day before and put in fridge, I found freezing made them too wet (as above). I fried them in a pan on the barbecue as suggestion above.
Even if you do not like veggie food you will like these I am sure!!

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